Category: Free Speech
NASA on Trial: David Coppedge Fell Victim to Anti-ID Zeal at America’s Space Agency
A Team Lead on the Cassini mission to Saturn, Coppedge shared videos on intelligent design with colleagues. Workplace hysteria ensued.
Currently Turned Against Pro-Lifers, French Totalitarian Impulse Can Easily Jump Oceans
We wrongly see liberalism and leftism as being on some kind of continuum.
Fact-Check: Austin, TX, Newspaper Bungles Description of Discovery Institute; Reporter Won’t Correct Record
Austin American Statesman reporter Madlin Mekelburg could take a lesson in neutrality in reporting.
Fact-Check: The Atlantic Misrepresents Kansas Science Standards and Won’t Correct the Record
It is concerning that such stubborn ignorance of how state boards of education work, and of the purview of science standards, persists in a national magazine.
On Texas Science Standards, a Breath of Fresh Air — Accurate Reporting!
Zack Kopplin is a self-described “investigative journalist and activist” who specializes in slinging the scare word “creationist” around.
This Science Educator Could Do with a Little More Science Education
Amanda Glaze seems like a personable, sympathetic, and intelligent woman who would make an excellent teacher.
Fact-Check: Louisiana’s Science Education Act Does NOT Authorize Teaching Creationism
Vox repeats the mistake of many media sources, mischaracterizing an academic freedom law as authorizing instructors to teach creationism.
Fact-Check: Inside Higher Ed Misrepresents Eric Hedin at Ball State University (Again)
Dr. Hedin, a responsible scientist and fine teacher, does not deserve this re-hashing of false accusations.
Discovery Institute’s Jonathan Witt Enters the Controversy over Texas Science Standards
Texas is in the process of streamlining its science standards, which means that Darwinists are ringing alarm bells.
A Trigger Warning for Criticisms of Darwinism?
David Moshman helps explain the threat to academic freedom that we see in the study of evolution and intelligent design.